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On Monday, November 9, 2015 The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT Collaborative) and its partners announced the “Advancing Health Equity through Precision Medicine Tools” Challenge.

At the event, NHIT Collaborative CEO Luis Belen and Dr. Julian Goldman of Partners Healthcare announced the first-of-its-kind initiative to inspire and fund entrepreneurs building digital health tools that:

Address the Precision Medicine needs of people in underserved and medically underserved communities

Facilitate participation of people from underserved and medically underserved communities to the Precision Medicine cohort

Promote the use of open health platforms to expand the breadth, depth and interoperability of digital health tools and associated data to support the Precision Medicine Initiative

In addition to the announcement at the HIMSS Connected Care Conference, the challenge was also announced at the NIH-IEEE 2015 Strategic Conference on Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies for Precision Medicine and the NIST ‘Global City Teams Challenge’ Workshop.

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The Precision Medicine Initiative seeks to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease by taking into account individual differences in people’s genes, environments, and lifestyles. Both accomplishing the specific goals of the Precision Medicine Initiative and ensuring health equity more broadly will require deliberate strategies and efforts to ensure that all people, including those in underserved communities and those who are medically underserved, can access and reap the benefits of precision medicine.

On Monday, November 9, 2015 The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT Collaborative) and its partners announced the “Advancing Health Equity through Precision Medicine Tools” Challenge.